Hamburg ROCKED!!!!

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

Yea!!!! As I slowly am moving not-garters out of my collection... the empty spaces are filling back up... with thamnophis! Today just rocked. First, I picked up some snakes from Rhea:

remember the 4 red sideds she had born last week? They are now residing with me! It appears to be 1.3 of them. Thanks Rhea, they are beautiful little buggers, and now you'll get to watch them grow up big and strong! They had their first meal today, they all took chopped nightcrawlers off my tongs like they were pro's at it!









I also got this female checkered from Rhea, whom I learned is possibly gravid to a lime green male. Her eyes are GORGEOUS! To me, she does look like she's in the early stages of gravidity.

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

I also picked up this big female checkered from a buddy vendor of mine... she's BIG, and very friendly. But even the owls are afraid of this one.




So I am walking down the aisle before the show opens and I see some albino checkereds... no biggies cause I am not really interested in them... then the word HYPO catches my eye. I stop. I stare. No way. Is that REALLY one of those new super cool codominant Hypo checkereds??? For sale??? HERE?! At hamburg?! Turns out, it was true. And he only brought ONE to sell. He said his female hypo is gravid and she was bred to a male hypo, to see if there is a super form. This snake has a glow that's hard to capture with a camera. They really stand out. They only get better with age. The crazy head and neck pattern top it off. This is a male, and since this is codom, any female I breed this male to will produce hypos in the first generation!

I know he doesn't look like much now, but there is a definite difference between these hypos and other checkereds!!! You have to see it in person to really get it.




So just when I think I have enough checkereds to take over the world... A table with a bunch of normals catches my eye. Because one of them is so much brighter than the rest. So I figured, for $14, plently of space in the baby racks, and a beautiful glowing baby checkered that is even brighter than a proven-genetic hypo... what have I got to lose?! Even my boyfriend was able to pick this one out of the bunch. The lady was looking at me weird because I didn't want just any... I wanted THAT ONE.

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

So... I had a great day. Good show. Scored a nice morph. Can't possibly get any luckier... right? right....? wrong. Last aisle... I look to my right and yell OH MY GOD NO WAY THOSE ARE RUBRILINEATUS loud enough to get a whole bunch of people looking at me weird. But they were!! Red Striped Ribbons! He had three young adult females, sadly no males but he's going to try hard for next show. I grabbed the larger 2 for $35 each. They are flawless, beautiful, and surprisingly mild mannered for ribbons. I love them. I love today. I love reptile shows. I love thamnophis!!

Girl 1




Girl 2





Their new pad... the hanging tunnel and swimming pool seems to be a hit!

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

[guidofatherof5]

Sounds like it was an awesome day. Congrats.

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

Oh yea, I saw some radix's for sale... reminded me of you!!!


also... I plan to vend at august hamburg show. My thamnophis collection has really taken off. I have been slowly moving out not-garters, but that show will be a mass-exodus of them!

[Snake lover 3-25]

awesome finds!!!!!! wow i had to do a double take on that checkered after the hypo.... thought it was the same snake!!!! very cool!!!

[GartersRock]

I still hate you. lol!!

[k2l3d4]

How big is that checkered lady that you got today.. I have checkered and am wondering how large they can actually get.

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

She is definitely over 3 feet, and is possibly close to 4. They get pretty big, I have actually seen them still larger and thicker than her!!!